Best Text Editor Software - Page 4
Text editors are specialized software applications designed for creating and modifying text files. These editors support plain text and can interpret various forms of text, including markup languages for rich text formatting. This type of software is a simplified alternative to integrated development environments (IDE). They cater to programmers and developers engaged in tasks like modifying plain text source code, editing configuration files, and reviewing error logs.
When a full-fledged IDE is unnecessary or too confining, developers often choose text editors for increased flexibility and coding freedom, allowing them to step outside conventional development methods. Particularly beneficial for beginners, free text editor tools offer a user-friendly space for learning and experimentation.
The best text editors seamlessly integrate with source code management software and build automation tools through customizable plugins to support a smooth development workflow. These editors excel at handling a modest number of text files and offer essential features like regular expression search and replace, syntax highlighting, autocompletion, and support for multiple tabs or window panes.
Text editors balance simplicity and functionality, serving as valuable tools for developers seeking a lightweight yet effective solution for their coding tasks.
To qualify for inclusion in the Text Editor category, a product must:
Best Text Editor Software At A Glance
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PureBasic is a native 32-bit and 64-bit programming language based on established BASIC rules.
- 50% Small-Business
- 30% Mid-Market
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Use Smultron 7 to create or edit any text document. Everything from a note, a web page, or a script to every single piece of text or code.
- 50% Mid-Market
- 33% Enterprise
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Etherpad allows you to edit documents collaboratively in real-time, much like a live multi-player editor that runs in browser No more sending your stuff back and forth via email, just set up a pad, sh
- 80% Small-Business
- 20% Mid-Market
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Acme Text Editor is a developmenet enviroment and textual-user-interface platform allows you to use a set of keyword shortcust, and makes use of 'mouse chording'.
- 50% Enterprise
- 50% Mid-Market
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LiveApp Player Suite is software that enables users to design and deploy custom solutions without the need to write, link or compile code.
- 75% Mid-Market
- 25% Small-Business
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At Narrative we believe visual storytelling should be simple, smart and fast. Our mission is to see professional photographers spend more time doing what they love - taking photos. We're creating a su
- 75% Mid-Market
- 25% Small-Business
136 Twitter followers
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Search multiple documents with smart queries and batch replace lines of text!
- 75% Mid-Market
- 25% Small-Business
19 Twitter followers
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Liveweave is a HTML, CSS & JavaScript editor with real-time (live) preview. It is the ultimate playground for web designers and developers, and a great tool to test, practice and share your creati
- 67% Mid-Market
- 33% Small-Business
396 Twitter followers
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Tiptap gives you full control over every single aspect of your editor experience. It's customizable, comes with a ton of extensions and real-time collaboration, is open source, and has extensive docum
- 75% Small-Business
- 25% Enterprise
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CygnusED is a text exitor for programmers that includes features such as an ARexx Interface and auxiliary tools to help the process of editing.
- 100% Enterprise
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A new Text File Editor EDITFILE 7.0.1 from GVSR Mapping Technologies, this has been specifically designed for Business Users, Business Analysts, Data Analysts, Programmers and Developers who need to w
- 50% Enterprise
- 50% Mid-Market
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Article JS is a powerful text editor for creating rich content. It can work with grids, cards, templates and other components of website.
- 100% Enterprise
1,699 Twitter followers
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Native code editor for macOS
- 50% Small-Business
- 50% Enterprise
52,962 Twitter followers
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skEdit is a Mac OS X application for editing web/html and text files, it has many useful features like project management, syntax highlighting, etc.
- 50% Small-Business
- 50% Mid-Market
84 Twitter followers
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Stylus Studio Enterprise Suite is an advanced XML Integrated Development Environment (XML IDE) consisting of hundreds of powerful XML tools in one all-inclusive suite, and high-performance Java &
- 50% Enterprise
- 50% Small-Business
